Mass License Plate Reader Surveillance In The U.S.

Whereabouts of U.S. cars are being recorded and archived through police license plate scanners. - The location and movement of American cars are being recorded and archived through police license plate scanners, even if they haven’t done anything wrong, a Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the American Civil Liberties Union has revealed. In yet another form of U.S. government mass surveillance on its own people, documents obtained through the FOIA show that the new automated plate readers, attached to police cars, bridges, buildings, etc. are capturing images of parked or moving cars and uploading the data to police databases. The law enforcement departments then keep the data for weeks, years, or sometimes indefinitely, according to The Huffington Post. "License plate readers are the most pervasive method of location tracking that nobody has heard of," said Catherine Crump, ACLU lawyer and lead author of the report. "They collect data on millions of Americans, the overwhelming number of whom are entirely innocent of any wrongdoing." The civil rights group has urged the police departments to erase any records of cars that are not linked to a crime.

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